Name: Christmas Cocktail
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Campari; 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice; 1/2 cup fresh clementine juice ((or, in a pinch, fresh orange juice)); 1/4 cup Simple Syrup; Ice; 1 3/4 cups Prosecco (chilled); Orange twists ((optional garnish))

Christmas Cocktail

Updated Aug 8, 2023, Published Dec 24, 2020

This Christmas cocktail is a festive combination of Campari, Prosecco, simple syrup, and fresh lemon and clementine juices. Kind of like a festive Campari fizz. Serve with a twist of orange.

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Two glasses of orange-colored Christmas cocktail with orange twists on the glasses.

Rating

5 / 3 votes

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Adapted From Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent

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Seven lords a leaping? So the carol goes. But after partaking of this Christmas cocktail cheer, perhaps it would be more accurate to say seven lords a leaning. Before you start a leaping and a leaning for yourself, let’s reflect a moment on what exactly constitutes a Christmas cocktail, shall we? According to no one but ourselves, it seems any such libation ought to be seasonal in terms of its ingredients, and certainly splashy hues of citrus juice qualify. The tipple ought also be effervescently toe-tapping and perky rather than serenely yawn-inducing and sleepy, which rules out hot toddies and mulled wine and the like, no matter how lovely the latter may be. And it ought to have a captivating countenance, one of those dazzling numbers that turns heads and makes ordinarily predictable people unexpectedly cry out,”I’d like one of those, please!” Does this little tipple merit the moniker “Christmas cocktail?” We think so.–Renee Schettler Rossi